Showa Women's University Institute of Modern Culture has published "Ashita no Joe" read from "Doya-gai", which summarizes the research results of "Ashita no Joe", which is loved as a "classic of manga" and has been handed down. ..The author is Natsuki Yamada, a full-time lecturer at the Department of Japanese Language and Literature, and a researcher at the Institute of Modern Culture.This is the 14th work in the booklet "Modern Culture Research Series" series.
Almost 50 years after the end of the series, "Ashita no Joe" is still loved and read as a "manga classic".While it has been interpreted repeatedly with the social situation at the time of serialization, it can be said that it has a "modern charm" that is loved by modern people who do not know the social situation at that time.
In "Ashita no Joe" read from "Doya-gai" published this time, works through careful reading of works, conventional work evaluations, recollections of authors and related parties, critiques, newspaper / magazine articles, modern literary works, and research papers. Approaching the charm of.The composition consists of the preface "Limitations of Contemporaneous Review-Beyond the Framework of Dissidents", Chapter 1 "The Enlarged Body as a Metaphor-An Attempt to Dismantle the" Wall "", and Chapter 2 "The Changing" Doya Street "". -Confrontation with the "past" ", Chapter 3" Joe becoming a "human" attitude to question the postwar era ".The price is 1,000 yen (excluding tax).
The booklet "Modern Culture Research Series" is a series of research results on modern life culture and literary arts by a researcher at the Institute of Modern Culture, Showa Women's University. Specific things such as "Japanese History of Chicken Rice" (written by Keiko Kosuge), "Before and After" Cat's House "-From the Viewpoint of" I am a Cat "from the History of Living Life" (written by Kiyoshi Hirai) A work that considers "modernization of Japan" has been published with a focus on.
